A low level triad " Big Brother " ( Andy Lau ) has a hot tempered " Little Brother " ( Jacky Cheung )who can't keep out of trouble and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. Andy Lau is super cool, but lacks the ambition to rise in the ranks of the triad societies and once he meets his cousin ( Maggie Cheung) and falls in love with her, he even decides he wants to leave " the Life " but it turns out that he has to bail out Jacky once More time, with predictable result ….